The Speaker Of The House Has Considerable Discretion Over The Flow Of Legislation In The Texas House, While The Lieutenant Governor Wields Even Greater Power In The Texas Senate Due To The Chamber’s Organization..”

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“The Speaker of the House has Considerable Discretion over the flow of Legislation in the Texas House, while the Lieutenant Governor Wields even Greater Power in the Texas Senate due to the Chamber’s Organization”.

This paper will investigate whether there is a considerable discretion of the Speaker of House over the flow of legislation in the Texas House, over the Lieutenant Governor has greater power in the Texas Senate due to the Chamber’s Organization.

Introduction

The limited embrace of the Texas government can be observed with the three branches, which has a higher representation of white male business owners as well as lawyers. The main responsibility of the government is to pass legislation, resolutions, and handling administrative services ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"PJMooElV","properties":{"formattedCitation":"({\\i{}Political Culture} 1.1)","plainCitation":"(Political Culture 1.1)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1847,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/CVDTASQ5"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/CVDTASQ5"],"itemData":{"id":1847,"type":"webpage","title":"Political Culture","URL":"https://www.webtexts.com/courses/34318-alsaeed/traditional_book/chapters/3605730-political-culture/pages/2920325-introduction","shortTitle":"Political Culture","issued":{"date-parts":[["2020"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2020",1,29]]}},"locator":"1.1"}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Political Culture 1.1). Texas has a bicameral system like other states when it comes to the government’s legislation

President of the Senate: the Lieutenant Governor

When it comes to power, the Lieutenant governor has more powers in comparison with the speaker of the house. The Lieutenant governor in Texas is supposed to act as the president for the senate and Lieutenant is elected as the Constitutional president by the voters and representatives from the executive body. In the absence of the governor, the Lieutenant governor makes state decisions and can narrate rules ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"h23x06pT","properties":{"formattedCitation":"({\\i{}Political Culture} 3.12)","plainCitation":"(Political Culture 3.12)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1847,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/CVDTASQ5"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/CVDTASQ5"],"itemData":{"id":1847,"type":"webpage","title":"Political Culture","URL":"https://www.webtexts.com/courses/34318-alsaeed/traditional_book/chapters/3605730-political-culture/pages/2920325-introduction","shortTitle":"Political Culture","issued":{"date-parts":[["2020"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2020",1,29]]}},"locator":"3.12"}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Political Culture 3.12). Moreover, the Lieutenant has the authority to make decisions regarding the questions raised from the parliament. Lieutenant has also authority to sign bills and lead the Senate.

Speaker of the House-Selection

In the House of Representatives, a presiding officer is considered as the Speaker. Speaker has the duty of maintaining orders while floor debating sessions and can identify the speakers and rules concerning the procedural matters ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"gK1Xc8kK","properties":{"formattedCitation":"({\\i{}Political Culture} 3.11)","plainCitation":"(Political Culture 3.11)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1847,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/CVDTASQ5"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/CVDTASQ5"],"itemData":{"id":1847,"type":"webpage","title":"Political Culture","URL":"https://www.webtexts.com/courses/34318-alsaeed/traditional_book/chapters/3605730-political-culture/pages/2920325-introduction","shortTitle":"Political Culture","issued":{"date-parts":[["2020"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2020",1,29]]}},"locator":"3.11"}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Political Culture 3.11). However, the duties of the Speaker are identified and decided by the House Rules of Procedures’ members. Speakers can also sign bills but the Chamber has to review them and it is the bodies of the government, which defines the roles of each committee and representative ADDIN ZOTERO_ITEM CSL_CITATION {"citationID":"hGHWuEwc","properties":{"formattedCitation":"({\\i{}Political Culture} 3.15)","plainCitation":"(Political Culture 3.15)","noteIndex":0},"citationItems":[{"id":1847,"uris":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/CVDTASQ5"],"uri":["http://zotero.org/users/local/F0XOCTdk/items/CVDTASQ5"],"itemData":{"id":1847,"type":"webpage","title":"Political Culture","URL":"https://www.webtexts.com/courses/34318-alsaeed/traditional_book/chapters/3605730-political-culture/pages/2920325-introduction","shortTitle":"Political Culture","issued":{"date-parts":[["2020"]]},"accessed":{"date-parts":[["2020",1,29]]}},"locator":"3.15"}],"schema":"https://github.com/citation-style-language/schema/raw/master/csl-citation.json"} (Political Culture 3.15). There are certain limitations including the review of the bills by the committees, whereas the charges of the committee are limited.

Conclusion

Based on the studies I analyzed that, the speaker has some of the significant discretions that includes order maintenance when it comes to the flow of the legislation in the Texas House. While Lieutenant general has more power in the Senate of Texas because of the organization of the Chamber.

Works Cited:

ADDIN ZOTERO_BIBL {"uncited":[],"omitted":[],"custom":[]} CSL_BIBLIOGRAPHY Political Culture. 2020, https://www.webtexts.com/courses/34318-alsaeed/traditional_book/chapters/3605730-political-culture/pages/2920325-introduction.